Career
| 2008 |
Awarded title of ‘Professor of Philosophy’. |
| 1998 |
Appointed Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford. |
| 1991 |
Appointed Reader in Philosophy, University of Essex. |
| 1986 |
Elected Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. |
Education
| 1998 |
D.Phil in Philosophy, Balliol College/All Souls College, Oxford. |
| 1984 |
MA in Philosophy University of Toronto. |
| 1983 |
Congratulatory First Class BA Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Balliol College, Oxford). |
Books
| 2016 |
On Film: Third Edition (Routledge) |
| 2015 |
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy (Oxford University Press) |
| 2013 |
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts (Oxford University Press) |
| 2009 |
The Wounded Animal: J.M.Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy (Princeton University Press) |
Articles
| 2020 |
‘The Idea of Ethical Vulnerability: Perfectionism, Irony and the Theological Virtues’ – in Angelaki 25:1-2 (Feb-April 2020) |
| 2019 |
‘Filosofia, Autobiografia, e o Ideal Ascetico’ – in Ferraro, Faustino, Ryan (eds), Rostos Do Si: Autobiografia, Confissao, Terapia (Lisboa: Livros Vendaval) |
| 2019 |
‘On Nietzsche’s Legacy’ – in T. Stern (ed), The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) |
| 2019 |
‘Two Shoes And A Fountain: Ecstasis, Mimesis and Engrossment in Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art’ – in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society |
| 2019 |
‘Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis and Modernity in Shutter Island’ – in C.B. Barnett and C.J.Elliston (eds), Martin Scorsese and Religion (Leiden: Brill) |
| 2019 |
‘The Alphabet of Us: Miracles, Messianism and the Baseline Test in Blade Runner 2049’ in Shanahan and Smart (eds), Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration (Routledge: London) |
| 2019 |
‘Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy’ in Becker and Thomson (eds), The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1945-2015 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge) |
| 2018 |
‘Riddles, Nonsense and Religious Language’, in Burley (ed), Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics: New Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology (Bloomsbury: London) |
| 2018 |
‘Deep Relationality and the Hinge-Like Structure of History: Michael Fried’s Photographs’, in Abbott (ed), Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention and Theatricality (Routledge: Oxford) |
| 2018 |
‘The Well is Not the World: William Golding’s Sense of Reality in Darkness Visible’, in Falcato and Cardiello (eds), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan: London) |
- Wittgenstein
- Post-Kantian Continental European philosophical traditions and authors, especially Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre;
- Aesthetics (especially film and literature), and the relation between philosophy and the arts more generally;
- Philosophy of Religion, and the relation between philosophy and theology.
As a tutorial fellow, I teach and lecture to undergraduates for our papers in Moral Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Post-Kantian Philosophy, and (occasionally) Kant. At graduate level, I have recently taught classes on Heidegger, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Literature, and Philosophy and Film.
